Lawmaker calls for review of Camp Randall scoreboard pick

8:30 AM,
Dec. 20, 2012

A scoreboard at Camp Randall Stadium, pictured here at a 2008 game, has been removed, and a new scoreboard and sound system will be installed in 2013. The bid process for the project has been called 'unethical' as the contractor, J.P. Cullen & Sons of Janesville, also is a listed subcontractor on the bid.

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Bill Lueders
Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism

A key legislator is asking state and University of Wisconsin-Madison officials to review the process through which a subcontractor was selected to build a new scoreboard and sound system at Camp Randall Stadium, to see if the jobs should be rebid.

Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, chairman of the state Assembly's Committee on Colleges and Universities, "is very concerned with the appearance of how this bidding process worked out," said Mike Mikalsen, Nass' aide and spokesman.

Mikalsen said the office has conveyed its concerns to the state Department of Administration (DOA) and ...